Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good
Beirut - you said "Once that kid hits the air, it is life unto itself." Nevermind being pretty funny, it made me wonder - what about pre-mature babies?

Is a child at 8 months a "life unto itself" if it is still inside the woman?

Is a child at 8 months a "life unto itself" if it has been born pre-mature?

And I think there are pro-abortion people out there - NARAL and those types. But the average libe- I mean pro-choice person probably isn't pro-abortion.
This is where it gets murkier and subjective, and where the pro-choice argument teeters on the verge of doublespeak.

I do not for a moment agree with late term abortions. As much as I insist that a woman has the right to abort a fetus early in the pregnancy, I don't think late term abortions (8 months for example) are anything short of insanity. Lest it be to save the life of the mother or because the baby has something tragically wrong with it that would doom it's existence beyond subjectivity. I don't know what would fall into this description, but it is possible conditions exist.

Any baby born is its own self and has all the rights due any individual.

Don't know about NARAL, but I think anyone who supports abortion merely for the act of aborting is a sick individual. For example, there are many on these boards who support the death penalty. This does not mean they support death itself. I support the right of a woman to chose her own course, I do not support the act of tearing a fetus out of her womb. Granted, the pro-lifers will see this as a cowardly view that removes responsibility from the pro-choice people, but it is the line that separates the two.

Any woman who choses to have an abortion, lest she be an idiot, realizes the gravity of her situation and will doubtlessly see it as a life altering experience. I'm sure these women don't do it with the slight regard some think they do.